RepoCamp is a one-day free and open event where folks who are interested in managing and creating digital repository software and their contents can gather and share ideas, innovations, trials and tribulations...and have a drink or two afterwards. One of the key goals of the event is to explore interoperability between repository software and other services.
When?
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Coffee, donuts, and bagels will be served at 8am-ish; we'll look to begin around 9am. Keep checking back here for updates. Also plan on staying afterwards for when the real ideas begin over a couple of beers (best hacks get free beer)!
Where?
Montpelier Room
Madison Building
101 Independence Avenue SE
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540
map with Metro lines
What?
RepoCamp is devoted to interaction, rather than presentation, and on doing, rather than reporting. So the format is self-organizing and emergent. No two BarCamps are the same. But generally, the activity will consist of pre-meeting web postings, 5-10 minute pitches to introduce ideas or information, ad hoc 'prototyping and demonstrations, and lots of free-range discussion.
If you have been to a BarCamp or an Unconference you'll get the general idea. The key to these events is to show up and be ready to engage in discussion about your own and other people's thoughts and innovative ideas. Watch this space as the topics and participants for this event reveal themselves.
Who? (go ahead and add yourself (the password/invite key is c4mp), we'll probably only have room for 30-40)
- Aaron Birkland, NSDL, Fedora Commons
- Bill Branan, Fedora Commons
- David Brunton, Library of Congress
- Stephan Drescher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Gabriel Farrell, Drexel University
- Dave Flanders, JISC CRIG
- Mike Giarlo Library of Congress
- Wayne Graham College of William and Mary
- Susie Henderson Florida Distance Learning Consortium
- Alvin Hutchinson, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- Greg Jansen, UNC Chapel Hill University Library
- Mark Johnson, United States Naval Academy, Department of Computer Science
- Leslie Johnston, Library of Congress
- David Kennedy, University of Maryland
- Daniel Krech, Library of Congress
- Michael R. Levy, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Justin Littman, Library of Congress
- Mark Matienzo, New York Public Library
- Elliot Metsger, Johns Hopkins University
- Chad Mills, Rutgers University Libraries
- Erik Mitchell, Wake Forest University
- Andrew Nagy, Villanova University
- Ben O'Steen Oxford University
- Bess Sadler University of Virginia Library
- Jim Safley, Center for History and New Media
- Doron Shalvi, National Library of Medicine
- Seth Shaw, Duke University Archives
- Ed Summers Library of Congress
- Dave Tarrant, ECS, University of Southampton, UK
- James Tuttle, North Carolina State University Libraries
- Brian Vargas, Library of Congress
The event has been sponsored by JISC Common Repository Interfaces Working Group and the Library of Congress
Topics (add your ideas: invite/password is c4mp)
Discuss
First of all, please edit this wiki page with your ideas, and add your name if you are interested in attending. invite/password is c4mp We also have a discussion list where we'll cover logistics, which you'll want to get on. If you'd like to keep up with changes to this page, but don't want to see all the changes that are going on at BarCamp, subscribe to the rss for the RepoCamp Yahoo Pipe
Hotels
Participants will need to make their own hotel arrangements. Capitol Hill Suites is definitely the closest hotel to the Library of Congress. (Just across the street from the Madison Bldg). If money is no object, you might want to stay in the Dupont Circle area, where there are many nice places to eat and drink. They are close to the Dupont Circle metro stop on the Red Line. Also, for people who are looking to save some money by staying in a hostel here is a list. The William Penn House looks decent and is very close to the Library of Congress. Some other recommended hostels are the International Guest House and International Hostel.
Directions
Location
View Library of Congress Campus Map
Metro Subway
Closest Metro Stop: Capitol South (orange/blue line)
Driving
Visit MapQuest for turn-by-turn directions
Thomas Jefferson Building
1st Street SE, between Independence Avenue and East Capitol Streets
James Madison Building
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20540
John Adams Building
2nd Street SE, between Independence Avenue and East Capitol Streets
Parking Options
- VERY, VERY Limited two-hour zone and metered parking on streets
- Public parking lots
By Train
From Area Airports
Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) – 4.4 miles, closest to the Library
- Shuttle service or taxi
- Subway (Metro) – blue line
Dulles International Airport (IAD) – 31.2 miles
Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) – 32.4 miles
